John keller



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J.KELLER.

TICKET NUMBERING STAMP.

No. 301,999. Patented July 15, 1884.

EU rrEE STAT-Es PATENT TICKET-N UM BERING STAM P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,999, dated July 15, 1884.

Application filed December 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, J OHN KELLER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful'lmprovement in Stamps for Printing Tag or Ticket Numbers, especially where the clothing is manufactured. In very large establishments it may be done by persons specially employed for that purpose and with appropriate machinery-such, for instance, as that patented to me September 26, 1882, No. 265,101. In smaller establishments,

however, this special service is not available,

and it is found impracticable to keep the spe cial machinery in good working order with out the employment of special skill for the purpose.

To meet the demand for a printing-machine to number my strip-tickets, adapted to properly gagethe same and operative in any unskilled hands, I have devised the improvement hereinafter more particularly described, having reference to the accompanyingdrawings, whereinv Figure l is-a perspective view of my device in operation. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same. i

A is a hand-stamp provided with a series of numbering-wheels, b 1), upon the periphery of each of which there is a series of digit-' ,types, each wheel being adjustable, so that said digits can be arranged in series, as desired. In the stampshown there is a' swinging ink-parka, whereby the types are inked prior to each depression, by which they are caused to print. This ink-pad may be replaced by an ink-ribbon, if preferred. Be-- low the digit-wheels there is an impression bed or foundation, E, to which the frame of the stamp Ais attached. This foundation is provided with guides J, under and within which the ticket-strip F is caused to slide. The ticket-strip has marginal notches h at the points of division between the individual tickets, for the purposes explained in my said reissued patent, and I am therefore enabled to utilize said notches to gage the movement of the ticket-strip, to bring the stamp-impression uniformly in one place on the ticket-faces; but it is not desirable in a machine intended to present the utmost simplicity to provide an automatic feed, and I therefore depend upon the operator to feedthe strip, and depend upon the automatic action of the gage-point G as it falls-into the notches h successively to cause a proper arrest. be automatically moved by a spring or by a weight; but I prefer a spring. In the drawings .it is shown as a piece of spring-wire standing vertically across one edge of the guideway, so that it is constantly in engagement with the edge of the ticket, and by the press me of its spring it falls into the notches h successively asthey arrive. This is the simplest form,and on many accounts to be preferred. If, however, it is desired to reduce the abrading effect of the friction of the gage-point, it may be done, as illustrated in Fig. 3, by adding a lever, I, with aflat face, somewhat narrower than the notch h at its widest point, so that it will sink but a little way into the notch, and by its compound lever action upon the gage-point arm or lever the gage-point will have a'larger-motion, and will only engage the ticket-strip at or near the re-entrant angle of the notch h. The broader face of the lever I will not abrade the edge of the ticket.

The guides may be made adjustable to adapt them to tickets of different widths, and the press may be adjusted upon its foundation to cause the type to descend upon the ticket-face at one point or another; or the same'end may be accomplished by making the gage-p0int adj ustable. The legs of the frame A are provided with feet capable of adjustment on the foundation or bed E, so'that the relative position of the stamp as to the gage-point may be varied to adapt the implement to tickets of different proportions. It is evident, however, that the same result can be attained by adjustment of gage-point.

In the drawings the feet above mentioned The gage-point G may are represented by flat plates, upon which the legs of the stamps are supported. On one side the leg is supported above the level of the inking pad or ribbon for the same, adjustable guides for the ticketstrip, and a self-acting gage-point, the relative position whereof as foundation B, so that the edge of the ticket to the digit-types may be adjusted at will,

may slide under it. This is a mode of con whereby the types may be caused to strike struetion, however, which may be varied upon such point on the face of the ticket as may be in manufacturing stamps for the market.

Having described my invention, I claim as new A hand-stain p numbering-machine provided with digit-types arranged in proper series, an

desired.

JOHN KELLER.

Witnesses:

XVM. Koon, J only A. ROE. 

